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Word entry · 4 letters

gore

Best crossword clue

"Bloodshed"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /ɡɔː/Part of speech noun, verbSorted egorStarts with GEnds with E1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. the shedding of blood resulting in murder

Word origin

From Middle English gore, gor, gorre (“mud, muck”), from Old English gor (“manure, dung, filth, muck, dirt”), from Proto-West Germanic *gor, from Proto-Germanic *gurą (“half-digested stomach contents; faeces; manure”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰer- (“hot; warm”).

Used in a sentence

  • And I beheld the roof and the walls one gore of blood.
  • As a sowe waloweth in the stynkynge gore pytte, or in the puddell.
  • The bull gored the matador.

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